Rudy Giuliani's former chef wants to find out if Hizzoner can stomach a helping of hot gossip.

Just in time for the race to the White House, Linda Taylor, the former chef at the New York City mayor's residence, is shopping a book proposal called Dishing the Dirt at Gracie Mansion. Her plan is to cover the 200-year history of families who've lived in the house, including several menus, recipes, and in Hizzoner's case, a side dish of scandal.

Taylor tells Radar that there were quite a few dalliances during Rudy's reign, with at least one guest being ushered out the front door as then wife Donna Hanover arrived at the back—not that Taylor ever talked to Hanover about what she observed. "The First Lady did not deign to gossip with the staff," shares the now-San Francisco-based cook.

Also, adds Taylor, "at least half the staff" were openly gay and hooking up with each other, which, she says, could partially explain Giuliani's lax stance on some social issues that the GOP has had such a difficult time swallowing thus far.

At the end of the saucy feast, Taylor says she's a Rudy supporter. "My stories could help the mayor win favor with the public," she tells Radar, adding that she'd cast a vote for the ex-mayor "in a New York minute" should he become the GOP's presidential nominee."I can't imagine Giuliani would not like it, as I paint him in a new light—a man with a tough job, who did his job well and whose first priority, I think, would be to bring our sons and daughters home from Iraq."